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    My Book of Life by Angel
    My Book of Life by Angel
    My Book of Life by Angel
    Audiobook2 hours

    My Book of Life by Angel

    Written by Martine Leavitt

    Narrated by Ali Ahn

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The author of several critically acclaimed books for young adults, Martine Leavitt received one of publishing's highest honors when her novel Keturah and Lord Death was named a finalist for the National Book Award. After 16-year-old Angel is lured into prostitution by an older man, she vows that something has to change when an even younger girl is initiated into the life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 21, 2013
    ISBN9781470370411
    My Book of Life by Angel
    Author

    Martine Leavitt

    MARTINE LEAVITT is the author of several award-winning books for young readers, including Calvin (winner of the Governor General’s Award), My Book of Life by Angel (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year) and Keturah and Lord Death (finalist for the National Book Award). She teaches in the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Martine lives in High River, Alberta.

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    • 5/5
      This book is so beautiful and heartbreaking. And I sobbed the whole way through. It’s very disturbing that there are people who live like this, or rather just don’t live at all. My heart goes out to each person that wanders through life and experiences these things. I pray that somehow they will be able to see an angel.
    • 4/5
      The writing is beautiful and clear - not bogged down by poetry but rather enlivened and whittled down to a simple, clear, luminous voice. A heartbreak of a tale about a young woman lured into drugs and then prostitution, whose empathy and spirit comes alive again when a new young victim moves into the house.
    • 5/5
      A grim, ugly subject but a beautifully told story, poignant and full of compassion.